Users across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have reported issues with parts of the social media giant’s suite of apps. Many took to rival platform Twitter to highlight the problem, which seems to be preventing images and videos from loading properly. Facebook said it was working to resolve the error as the hashtag #instagramdown began to […]
A filing for an unreleased MacBook Pro was briefly available on the Federal Communication Commission site. The filing is no longer accessible, but sites were still able to comb through the FCC documentation. Reportedly, it concerned a device with the model number A2159, which matches up with other MacBook filings Apple submitted to the Eurasian […]
Bloomberg anonymous sources saying that Samsung has completed a redesign of the Galaxy Fold in just two months. Samsung still isn’t able to confirm a release date, however, and one person told Bloomberg that the phone is unlikely to resurface at next month’s Galaxy Note 10 event. Samsung is said to have made the screen’s […]
Instagram is introducing a new feature that will let users start private group messages around specific Stories. The new feature, called the chat sticker, joins a bunch of other stickers Instagram has introduced to Stories, including polls, question boxes, mentions, locations, hashtags, and countdowns, among others. The chat sticker is relatively straightforward, and Instagram is […]
Nvidia’s unveiled not one, but three “Super” variants of its existing GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards, along with a new FrameView tool intended to give enthusiasts and reviewers deeper insight into the performance and power consumption of GPUs. And the new cards don’t really cost more than their slower, older counterparts. As detailed in numerous […]
A second Cloudflare outage in two weeks has taken multiple sites and services down, including Zendesk, OKCupid, Peloton and even our own site. Affected apps and websites were either unable to properly load or showed a “502 Gateway Error.” Ironically, even the site DownDetector, which is commonly used to check web service disruptions, was affected. […]
Microsoft this week took to social media to share a teaser for the “all-new Windows 1.0” complete with MS-DOS executive and clock. https://twitter.com/windows/status/1145731141695168512?s=21 Accompanying the teaser is short 13-second video that spans through the Windows logos in reverse chronological order, from Windows 10 back through Windows 1.0. Microsoft hasn’t mentioned much else about the teaser […]
LG’s Mobile World Congress 2019 event brought us the LG G8S ThinQ flagship smartphone back in February. Now, it is finally ready for release in Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. LG says the G8S ThinQ was created for users “seeking a more bespoke smartphone experience,” although in practice that seems to mostly […]
Microsoft committed to a biannual major release schedule for Windows 10 back in 2017, and now it confirmed that the “19H2” update set to roll out later this year “will be a scoped set of features for select performance improvements, enterprise features and quality enhancements.” Microsoft says it will use servicing technology to deliver the […]
Samsung has announced its latest Unpacked event for August 7th at 4PM Eastern at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, NY, where the company will be announcing the Galaxy Note 10, the latest in its line of super-sized stylus-equipped smartphones. This could be one of the biggest Galaxy Note introductions yet. There’s not a lot to […]
Facebook evacuated four buildings at its Menlo Park, Calif., campus Monday after equipment at the company’s mail-processing facility detected a package that might have contained sarin, a potentially lethal nerve agent, according to reports. Two individuals may have been exposed to sarin but are not currently showing signs or symptoms of exposure, Reuters reported, citing […]
Every PlayStation Vue subscriber will see a $5-per-month price increase, Sony announced today. The change will be effective starting today for new subscribers. Existing subscribers can expect the price increase in their billing statements on or after July 31st. Other streaming providers like YouTube TV, Netflix and AT&T’s DirecTVNow raised their rates earlier this year. […]
Samsung is still hoping it can break through and compete with the likes of Siri, Alexa and Cortana. The company has opened its Bixby Marketplace in the US and South Korea, where users can download services to customize their assistant. The Marketplace offers Bixby apps, which Samsung is calling “capsules”. Bixby already offers quick commands […]
Samsung’s CEO called the launch of the Galaxy Fold “embarrassing” and admitted that he launched the troubled phone before it was ready for prime time. The company’s foldable smartphone marked an exciting step forward in design – until review devices began to break after just a few days of use. Reviewers testing the device complained […]
Jony Ive’s departure was made official last week, but may have begun years ago because of Apple’s shift in focus from design to operations, according to the The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. The The Wall Street Journal report follows a similar piece published by Bloomberg last week. Both reports describe an Apple design team, […]